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From: anne@hall.cray.com (Anne Chenette)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Want login shell to timeout after 15 mins.
Message-ID: <2988@hall.cray.com>
Date: 13 Jan 88 21:33:19 GMT
References: <3341@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <176@conexch.UUCP> <1152@trotter.usma.edu>
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
Lines: 18
Keywords: Sys-V, idle, logout
Summary: I'd like one, too

In article <1152@trotter.usma.edu>, bill@trotter.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> All these cute little scripts/programs to kill off idle users are cute
> but they are also futile.  It doesn't take much imagination to come up
> with a program to put a clock on the screen or just write any meaningless
> little message out to the screen every few minutes in order to beat it.
> 
> Unless there is a shortage of ttys ...  I wouldn't bother ...
> 

Well, I have a bunch of "unimaginative" users who forget to log off, and
I also have a severe shortage of tty's (we're using a Sun 3/280 with a
16-port mux as if it were a VAX 11/780...).  I'm not so worried about
overhead as I am about increasing access to the machine.  I'm very
interested in getting a login shell to time-out (after 1/2 to 1 hour).

					Anne Chenette
					...!ihnp4!cray!anne